Hey guys,
so a couple weeks ago I picked up a 1989 4 door nissan truck, for a pretty good price up here in canada. (I'm a little further north than most of you, but this looked like an informative board) Having a bugger of a time finding a manual for the truck as well.
Near as I can tell the TD27 was never sold up here , except maybe in forklifts, we also never got any 4 door pickups other than toyota tacomas, which are $$$$.
So I'm not 100% I'll be keeping the truck long term, I've always been more of a landcruiser guy, but it was one of those deals I couldn't pass up despite it's issues.
So far, the worst issue is rough starts, which might only be the glow plugs as the timer setup wasn't working ( switching to manual push button setup. More my speed,) Or it could be air getting in or a dodgy pump, or just a dodgy engine.
Haven't had time to really check into it yet. it fires instantly and idles, but doesn't much care to be revved up for a couple minutes. Farts and pops and smokes if you do. Runs great once it's warmed up, other than black smoke if I'm impatient with it on the road.
So what I'm really wondering, because the td27 version wasn't sold here, does much cross over with the older diesels ( the 85 ish nissans aren't that uncommon) or the gas version? (tons of them, cheap like dirt)
It's much easier to go into the parts store and ask for a part for a truck that was sold here, a lot of them shake their heads and get pissy when you say it's a JDM.
Does a clutch kit crossover to a petrol version, or transmission?thermostat(think I definitely need a tstat)
Worst case scenario I could yank out the diesel and put in the much more common petrol engine but I'd rather not. If it came to that I'd probably just sell it and move on to something else.
For what I paid for it, I can easily get my money back out of it and then some , so I'm not hugely worried.
Well that was kinda wandering and long winded, but you get the picture...
cheers,
Ryan
so a couple weeks ago I picked up a 1989 4 door nissan truck, for a pretty good price up here in canada. (I'm a little further north than most of you, but this looked like an informative board) Having a bugger of a time finding a manual for the truck as well.
Near as I can tell the TD27 was never sold up here , except maybe in forklifts, we also never got any 4 door pickups other than toyota tacomas, which are $$$$.
So I'm not 100% I'll be keeping the truck long term, I've always been more of a landcruiser guy, but it was one of those deals I couldn't pass up despite it's issues.
So far, the worst issue is rough starts, which might only be the glow plugs as the timer setup wasn't working ( switching to manual push button setup. More my speed,) Or it could be air getting in or a dodgy pump, or just a dodgy engine.
Haven't had time to really check into it yet. it fires instantly and idles, but doesn't much care to be revved up for a couple minutes. Farts and pops and smokes if you do. Runs great once it's warmed up, other than black smoke if I'm impatient with it on the road.
So what I'm really wondering, because the td27 version wasn't sold here, does much cross over with the older diesels ( the 85 ish nissans aren't that uncommon) or the gas version? (tons of them, cheap like dirt)
It's much easier to go into the parts store and ask for a part for a truck that was sold here, a lot of them shake their heads and get pissy when you say it's a JDM.
Does a clutch kit crossover to a petrol version, or transmission?thermostat(think I definitely need a tstat)
Worst case scenario I could yank out the diesel and put in the much more common petrol engine but I'd rather not. If it came to that I'd probably just sell it and move on to something else.
For what I paid for it, I can easily get my money back out of it and then some , so I'm not hugely worried.
Well that was kinda wandering and long winded, but you get the picture...
cheers,
Ryan